Year : 1
Events : -BC- Start of revised Julian calendar in Rome
Year : 1781
Events : Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
Year : 1784
Events : E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
Year : 1796
Events : 1st National Meeting in the Hague
Year : 1803
Events : Ohio becomes 17th state
Year : 1869
Events : Postage Stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time
Year : 1872
Events : Yellowstone becomes World's 1st national park
Year : 1890
Events : 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published
Year : 1912
Events : Capt.Albert Berry, United States makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane, over St.Louis, Missouri.
Year : 1937
Events : 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Connecticut)
Year : 1941
Events : 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville TN
Year : 1946
Events : British Govt takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years
Year : 1946
Events : Panama accepts its new constitution
Year : 1947
Events : International Monetary Fund began operations
Year : 1954
Events : US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
Year : 1982
Events : Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
Year : 1984
Events : NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth
Year : 1984
Events : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Year : 1993
Events : India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its "Akash" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'
Year : 1996
Events : Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of Prime Minister.
Year : 1790
Events : 1st US census authorised
Year : 1968
Events : Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect
Year : 1977
Events : Bank of America adopts the name VISA for their credit cards
Year : 1995
Events : Belgium ends military conscript
Year : 1962
Events : Uganda became a self governing country
Year : 1966
Events : Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
Year : 1999
Events : General Olusegun Obasanjo declared the new civilian President of Nigeria, 20 years after he held power as military ruler.
Year : 1993
Events : US forces made their first airdrop of food and medicines over beleaguered Bosnian enclaves cut off by fighting Serbs and Muslim forces.
Year : 1993
Events : Dr.Basu, took over as Chairman, State Bank of India.
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